What Web 2.0 Really Is!

Web 2.0 is considered the new generation of websites. It stands for websites that are interactive with its members, allows its members to dynamically change the sites, add content to them, and interact with other members of the site like never before.

This is a huge shift in mentality. In Web 1.0 my website was only mine and nobody dare to touch it! In Web 2.0 my website is like a huge forum where people are active, add content and really interact with each other.

We can divide The Web 2.0 sites in these categories:

* Social Bookmarking
* Social Networking
* Video sites
* Pod Casting

Some people add Blogs as a distinctive category of Web 2.0 sites because of the openness and conversational nature of Blogs.

1) Social Bookmarking includes sites in which people store, classify and share links.

Examples: del.icio.no, Digg, Furl, Yahoo’s My Web 2.0, Flicker, Simply, Technorati, Blinkflip, Blinklist, Squidoo, Stumple Upon, Mywebtop, Bloglines, Fark.

The best tool I know, a social bookmarking services, is onlywire.com. You can submit with a single click your site to multiple Web 2.0 sites.

Sometime Social Bookmarking and Social Networking are consider one single classification, I think the separation I made, the definitions and the examples I provide will show a clear cut, and implement the idea that they must be treated separately.

2) Social Networking it is about being able to group people into specific groups – online community of Internet users. As soon as you are granted access to a social networking website you can begin to socialize with the people in the group. Social Networking is usually open memberships where you begin to create your own network of friends.

Examples: MSpace, FriendFinder, Yahoo 360, Facebook, Orkut, FriendWise, Friendster and so on. Social Networking sites are extremely popular, easy to use, and easy to navigate. You have to register but the majorities are free to use: Yahoo 360, MySpace.

The aim of Social Networking sites is to meet new people on line, get access to free video music, get assess to free blogs. The most popular is MySpace with over one hundred million members and growing. Orkut is Google’s social networking website; it is very easy to use.

3) Video Sites. They exploded in the last year, it is the idyllic way to get your videos in the search engines quickly by tapping the video with specific keywords and put them in videos description.

Examples: YouTube, Google videos, BlipTV, Flurt, SelfCastTV, Bott, ZippyVideo just to give you a couple.

4) Podcasting. It is a method of publishing audio broadcasts via the Internet and listened to when listeners wish to. Podcastingis a convenient digital method of distributing updated audio info that can be listened to at the listener’s discretion.

Podcasts can be played by iPod, digital audio player or a computer with an audio playing software. The beauty is that independent producers can be you and me, anyone, and there are not any regulations about creating Podcast. This is freedom and people really enjoy it! My belive is the Podcasting has a great potential in future they will include content as well, not just audio and video even though now is an audio format.

There are also specialized podcasts which become more popular. Examples:

* Autocasting – is automatic generation of podcast from text
* Vidcasting – is podcasts using video
* Godcasting – is religious podcast
* Palmcasting – is podcasting to Palm OS Based devices
* Learncasting – is able to deliver instructional content by RSS
* MediaRSS – is media file syndication used by Yahoo
* Skypecasting – is recording Skype text, voice or video conversations

All of those are part of the big umbrella of Podcasting even though they a specialized.

We got so far that we have now podcast directories: podcastdirectory, digitalpodcast, podcast, yahoo.com and so on.

All those directory have a lot of podcasts to choose from.

As you can see, the Web 2.0 is already established and this is the direction in which I think the development will go.

If other people have more info and more experience in this direction in which web is going, I’ll be glad to read your comments and happy to learn more.

Michaela Cernescu is an Education Specialist trained by eBay, Internet Marketer, Digital Products Writer, Affiliate, and honest Joint Venture partner.

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What Web 2.0 Really Is! By Michaela Cernescu

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Expensive Or Cheap? Take Your Pick On These Internet Advertising Methods

People opt for internet advertising methods because practically half of the world’s population knows HTML. If you have your own business, you have to decide on what internet advertising method works for you.

Ask yourself what are you going to avail of: the expensive internet advertising methods or the cheap ones? Others will pipe in “expensive!” immediately, but they don’t know cheap internet advertising method attracts great benefits as well.

Here’s the lowdown and a comparative look on the cheap and expensive internet advertising methods:

The Expensive:

1. Pop-ups.

Not only is this expensive, but also outright annoying that visitors close pop-up windows without even bothering to know what they’re all about. This is an internet advertising method that you can do without. Fly ads are derivatives of pop-ups which are also equally irking to the visitors.

2. Pod casts.

Broadcast is to TV as pod cast is to internet. It’s one sophisticated internet advertising method that can somehow hamper your budget. But if you’re thinking results, pod casting is worth the money.

3. Paying the search engines.

How does this one work? When someone types in a keyword related to your site, your URL is automatically included in the first page of the top results. Fixed payment for the search engine allows just that. Expensive, yes, but if we’re talking about Google and Yahoo search engines here, then don’t give it a second thought.

This is associated with another internet advertising method: the pay-per-click system.

The Cheap:

1. Blogging.

Go along the bandwagon and blog about your website. This is an internet advertising method that is popular as of the moment, so you never have to worry that this will never spur outcome. All you have to do is sign up for a blogging account, post and voila! You don’t even need to pay!

2. Submit to not-so-big search engines.

This is cheap and dependable. If you submit your site to smaller search engines, you have bigger chances to get bigger results. Remember that the search engine giants can dwarf and overlook your site easily, so this internet advertising method might just be the right one for you.

3. Text links.

This is not just cheap…this is virtually free! Let someone text link your site and return the favor.

Cheap versus expensive, that’s always the question that hounds on whenever we’re trying to get something. In the field of internet advertising, just be wise enough to figure out what will suit your needs. Go for what you want as long as there are visible results.

Expensive Or Cheap? Take Your Pick On These Internet Advertising Methods / Jo Han Mok

Jo Han Mok is the author of the #1 international business bestseller, The E-Code. He shares his amazing blueprint for creating million dollar internet businesses at: http://www.InternetMillionaireBlueprints.com